Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-12-29
There's Hope for Everyone.

SDedkef CaTJiSle was d country ScHOO
teacher
Judge Kelley, father of the house
was a jeweler.
Senator Pasco was a school teacher al
$40 4 month.
Tom Reed, of Maine. was a paymas
ter in the navy.
Dougherty, of Florida, was a sailor
before the mast
Anderson, of Kansas, was Presbyte
rian clergymen.
Judge Chapman, of Michigan, was a
mine prospector.
Leland Stanford was country law
yer in Wisconsin.
Senator Kenna was once a coal mi
ner at 81 20 day.
Senator Dawes was a school teacher
and country editor
Ben Butterworth used to be a planta-
ton boss in Virginia
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, kept a
country grocery store.
Delegate Caine, of Utah, was many
years a theater manager.
Taulbee, the tall Kentucky member.
was divinity student.
Robertson, the new Louisiana mem
Der, is college professor,
James B. White, of Indiana, was a
calico printer and tailor.
Congressman Cultivate was p.1nci
pal of city school five years.
Civil Service Commissioner Oberly
was Chicago Times reporter.
Judge Tarnsney. a Michigan con-
gresham, was steamboat engineer.
Justice Blatchford was Governor W.
Fl. Stewards private secretary.
Senator Plumb was typesetter. Hit.
of Illinois, was stenographer.
Senator Sawyer bought his time"
when Is years old and ran a saw mill
Senator Stewart, Of Nevada. mined
with pick and shovel in California.
Senator Cullum was famous as a corn
husker in early days in Illinois.
W. II. T. Lee, son of Robert E. Lee,
and now congressman, is a farmer.
Darlington, a Pennsylvania member.
was reporter on Philadelphia dailies.
Clifton r. Breckenridge, Of the ways
and means committee, was a bookkeeper.
Boutelle, of Maine. was an abstract
clerk. Guenther, Of Wisconsin. was 4
druggist.
Romeis, of Ohio, was Il baggage mas
ter. Deacan White, of New York, vas
a miller.
Secretary Bayard WIS clerk in New
York. Pidcock, OF New Jersey. WAS a
civil engineer
John McShane, the millionaire Oma-
ha congressman, was cowboy without
a cent in 1871.
FELTON,, the California multi million
aire, was chore boy on farm in Erie
county, n. Y.
Bancroft, the historian, once thought
of entering the ministry, and preached
several sermons.
Solicitor General jerks used to be a
surveyor. Pennington, OF Delaware,
was school teacher.
Samuel J. Randall. whom nobody
supposed had war record, was a pri-
vate IN company of cavalry.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, was a gold
in California in 10, and sher-
if OF Tholumne county later
Silas Hare, Texan member, was
jayhawker chief justice of New Mexico
under the Confederate government.
Congressman Farquhar was type
setter, and the first president of the first
typographical union in the Z. States.
Justice Bradley taught a district
school every winter from his 10Th to his
21st year and was for some time sur:
veyor.
Senator BIodgett, of New Jersey was
a locomotive engineer. His predeces-
sor, Gen. Sewell, was once a sailor be-
fore the mast.
Senator Dolph was an orderly ser
geant in a company raised to protect
settlers crossing the plains in 1862 from
attacks of Indians
President Cleveland once compiled the
American Herd Book and received $50
for the service For time he managed
a hotel.
Senator Riddleberger has been editor
of three papers, The Shenandoah Demo
crat, The Teuton Legion, and The Vir-
ginia Democrat.
Frank Lawler, another Chicago mem
ber, WAS brickmaker, news agent.
learned the ship carpenters trade, and
is now saloon keeper.
Senator Sabin, with his trousers
tucked in his boots, used to stand on
the streets of Springfield, Mass. all day
TO sell cordwood that he had chopped
and hauled twelve miles.
Justice Field was intended for the
service. His sister Emilia
took him to Smyrna when 13 years old,
to have him learn the Oriental languag-
es. and lie spent eleven years there in
study.
George West, row millionaire con-
gresham from New York, was jour
neyman paper maker in the times when
paper was made by the old fashioned
hand process. He recently bought the
mill in England where he learned his
trade. New York Evening Sun.
How BE Saved the Diamonds.
[London Globe